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February 9, 2018 No Responses

Osinbajo inaugurates N4.1b Nestlé factory in Ogun

The Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday urged multinational companies to domicile their factories in Nigeria as he inaugurated Nestlé Nigeria Plc’s N4.1 billion Milo-Ready-to-Drink (RTD) factory at Agbara in Ogun. Osinbajo said that they should take ...

February 9, 2018 No Responses

Edo earmarks 150,000 hectares for oil palm plantation

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state is ready to commit between 100,000 to 150,000 hectares of land to the cultivation of oil palm plantations over a period of five to ten years. Obaseki disclosed this when...

February 9, 2018 No Responses

Dana Air: 90% of our pilots, co-pilots are Nigerians

Dana Air on Thursday said that 90 per cent of its pilots and co-pilots were Nigerians in line with the Executive Order on Local Content Procurement. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the airline’s Director of Flight Operations,...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

Mercedes-Benz records 193,000 sales in January

Daimler AG has reported January sales of over 190,000 units in the Mercedes-Benz Passenger cars segment, making it the most successful start to a year in the company’s history. With this new sales record which also represents a growth of...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

NNPC to tackle fuel scarcity with two Cargoes per day in February

In a bid to keep the country wet with petrol and eradicate the fuel queues that have resurfaced in some cities, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has programmed to bring in two cargoes of petrol per day for the...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

‘90% Nigerian households consume contaminated water’

Ninety per cent of households in Nigeria consume contaminated water and other impure substances, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) has revealed. Mrs Maureen Zubie-Okolo, a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with UNICEF, told the News Agency of Nig...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

Nigerian Railway generates N4.1billion in 2017

The Managing Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, said on Wednesday that the cooperation generated N4.12 billion in 2017, as against the N4.85 billion targeted. Okhiria made this known during the 2018 Budget Defence and the organisati...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

NLNG presents $200,000 to 2017 Literature, Science Prizes winners

Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited, on Wednesday at a Public Presentation in Lagos, formally presented The Nigeria Prize for Literature and The Nigeria Prize for Science, which come with a cash prize of $100,000 each, to four winning entries that emerged...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

FG re-appoints Consortium of Banks to implement $2.5b Euro bond

The Federal Government has announced the re-appointment of a consortium of banks including Citi Group, Standard Chartered, Stanbic IBTC, Whitten-Case and African Practice to implement its 2.5billion dollars Eurobond scheme. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Ad...

February 7, 2018 No Responses

NPA boss at Ikorodu lighter terminal, flags off export of solid minerals

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman on Wednesday flagged off the first export consignment of manganese, a solid mineral resource from the Ikorodu lighter Terminal. Bala Usman also used the opportunity to explain that.....

February 7, 2018 No Responses

NNPC task force arrest two managers of Azman filling stations over alleged diversion

As part of efforts to sanitize the fuel supply and distribution system to eliminate the queues, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has stepped up the arrest and prosecution of erring marketers and fuel hawkers across the country. A...

February 7, 2018 No Responses

Photo News

L-R: Mr. Henry Ajoh, General Manager, SIFAX Shipping Company Limited; Otunba Kunle Folarin, Chairman, Nigerian Ports Consultative Council (NPCC); Mr. Hassan Bello, Executive Secretary/CEO, Nigerian Shippers’ Council; Prince Olayiwola Shittu, National Preside...

February 7, 2018 No Responses

Labour faults reinstatement of NHIS Boss

Alarmed that President Muhammadu Buhari reinstated the suspended Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf, organsied Labour under the umbrella of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), has stated tha...